A CITY is trembling in terror as the full moon approaches, after a spate of werewolf sightings.

Seven separate eye witnesses claim to have spotted the 8ft tall creature lurking in an abandoned industrial area outside the centre of Hull.

Residents and folklore experts believe the mythical beast, said to turn from a human to wolf at a new moon, is Old Stinker.

According to a centuries-old legend the foul-breathed creature prowls the Yorkshire Wolds.

But locals fear it may now have decided to claim the overgrown area as its turf.

The
lonely banks of Barmston Drain, a water channel built in 1798 to dry
out salt marshes, are where the creature was first reported before
Christmas.

One woman claims to have seen it turn from man to beast as she stood quaking on a bridge above.

She said: “It was stood upright one moment. The next it was down on all fours running like a dog. I was terrified.

“It bounded along on all fours,
then stopped and reared up on to its back legs, before running down the
embankment towards the water.

“It vaulted 30ft over to the other side and vanished up the embankment and over a wall into some allotments.”

A couple saw “something tall and hairy” eating a German Shepherd dog next to the Drain.

They stopped to get a closer look and saw it jump an 8ft high fence before vanishing into the night, its prey still in its jaws.

And a woman walking her dog along the watercourse spotted something “half-man, half-dog” in the distance.She was terrified, and her pet began shaking and refused to go any further along the path.

Now locals plan a werewolf hunt with cameras and recording equipment at the next moon.
Local councillor Steve Wilson has offered to keep an incident log.

He said: “I am happy to keep a diary of sightings by people around here and report them to Hull Council.”

Witnesses
say when the creature transforms, its upper body is more wolf than man –
similar to the beast in the American Werewolf films.

The Hull creature bears an uncanny
resemblance to the legend of Old Stinker – said to prowl The Wold Newton
Triangle, an area of eerie goings on near Scarborough.

Charles Christian, author of A Travel Guide To Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds, said sightings went back centuries.

He
said: “The Yorkshire Wolds was actually one of the last parts of
England to have wild wolves. Old Stinker was said to be operating on the
other side of them but it would be no distance at all for a large
animal to get to Hull."

He added: “When you get multiple
sightings combined with a tradition of stories going back centuries it
is hard to ignore the possibility something might be there.”

Worried locals have sought help from Mike Covell, an expert in the supernatural.

He said: “I was sceptical at first, but then more and more people contacted me saying they had seen the same thing.

“No
one really knows what to do. You can hardly pop down the local council
office or police station and say you’d like to report a werewolf.”

And as someone pointed out -Hull is in the East Riding of Yorkshire not South Yorkshire. How the Hell does anyone even get that wrong -there are maps on the internet if they can't handle paper ones. You get a fact like that wrong then maybe you DO believe there are werewolves.......

Here's a challenge to these newspapers: I've been looking into all sorts of phenomena and mystery creatures since the mid-1970s. I am a naturalist. Open minded if presented with FACTS. Pay my expenses and I'll talk to the witnesses and look around this "home turf" of the creature.